harrowing to hear him talk about 80 homes being lost to fire, describes it as almost a forest fire-like environment given the winds last night. so we'll talk more about that, and if he brings any more headlines we'll get them straight to you. >> you know, one thing, i think 9/11, there's no -- there's no good news about 9/11 obviously when it happened, but it seems to have brought these first responders together in a way, the coordination bond seems amazing to me, amazing. >> some of the early calls, getting the subway trains off the tracks, as the mayor said, in retrospect looks pretty smart. >> what a plan. >> let's get to lower manhattan, experiencing some record flooding yesterday. our scott cohn is live in battery park city. scott, what's the scene this morning? >> reporter: yeah, and i will second that, carl, what jim just said about how this city was prepared for it, and we talked last night how about in a lot of ways the city seemed fragile, but, you know, the evacuation zones that went into place and irene was the first time that they started to use them and then now sandy, and -- and the